Sentences with phrase «acre or a quarter»
You can convert a half acre or a quarter acre lawn to growing local foods.
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Other green roofs have been installed at the Bronx County Courthouse (10,000 square feet), Ikea in Brooklyn (70,000 square feet), Ethical Culture Fieldston School (two roofs, measuring 5,100 square feet and 1,500 square feet, in the Bronx), a Con - Edison building in Long Island City (a quarter of an acre, or about 10,000 square feet) and Hackensack Hospital in New Jersey (about 5,000 square feet).
As we retreat indoors, more and more of the earth is disappearing, with an estimated quarter of a million acres paved or repaved in the United States each year.»
One large advanced design wind turbine, occupying a quarter acre of land, can easily yield a farmer or rancher $ 2,000 in royalties per year while providing the community with $ 100,000 of electricity.
While thousands of people pass through the quarter - acre plaza — a.k.a. the Polish Triangle — every day to catch the train or hop on a bus, they rarely tarry as the plaza offers few reasons — a fountain, metal benches and some trees — to linger.